Short Lived Rite: Next Saturday 50 years have passed since Paul VI celebrated the first Mass according to the instructions of Second Vatican Council in the parish-church Ognisanti in Rome. For the event, Pope Francis will preside a Eucharist in … [More]

Media Campaign: The anticlerical Italian magazine L’Espresso has launched a brutal media campaign against Cardinal George Pell, the Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy. It claims that Pell has accumulated – quote – “enormous powers”. The … [More]

Hanging in the Wind: David Shaneyfelt and Joseph Maher write in the “Homiletic and Pastoral Review” that insurance companies of the diocese will not defend a priest accused in the U.S. of sexual misconduct and the bishop is not required to defend … [More]

A free country? Talk show host Barbara Simpson has defended San Francisco archbishop Salvatore Cordileone who is being attacked by media and politicians for asking teachers in Catholic high schools not to participate in immoral public activities … [More]

Blacklisted Cardinals: According to Sandro Magister the times are hard for cardinals who are seen as "dissenters" with respect to the liberal guidelines of Pope Francis. Magister mentions the ultra-Bergoglian portal “Vatican Insider” which bashed … [More]

Hurtful Statement: Bishop Heiner Koch of Dresden, Germany, has said to the paper Nordwest-Zeitung that it is – quote – “hurtful to present homosexuality as a sin”. In the German bishops conference Koch happens to be the president of the Commission … [More]

Wishy Washy Is the Problem: Monsignor Rogelio Livieres, the former bishop of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, who was unjustly sacked by Pope Francis asks on his blog why so many Latin America Catholics leave the Church. His answer: “People look in … [More]

In Front of Man? Yesterday Pope Francis met with priests of the Roman diocese. He told them an anecdote about his address to the plenary meeting of the Cardinals who gathered in 2005 in order to elect Benedict XVI. Then Cardinal Bergoglio spoke … [More]

Flattering: Today L’Osservatore Romano published a part of a new book of pro-gay German Cardinal Walter Kasper. Its title: “Pope Francis, the revolution of tenderness and love”. In it, Kasper tries hard to polish the apple. He even compares the … [More]

@Gloria.TV NewsIf you don't mind me asking, is satire that undermines a pope an okay thing to do? I understand that you have objections in this case to the closing of the Franciscan Friars in Rome but is that enough reason to portray him with sarcasm?

@Gloria.TV NewsThank you for your clarification, no insult was intended, the phrase 'low point' was meant to signify my belief that this report was not up to the standards of a news report by very poor satire - that's an honest opinion with no insult intended.Please make me aware in future if you think a post of mine insults you or someone else - I don't like to insult or be insulted either.Peace :)

@Lindsaywtf"I feel that this report was a low point in the life of your news service?"Gloria.TV News is not about feelings, it's about facts.If you do not like it, you are welcome to open your own page.

Honest question for @Gloria.TV NewsWhat was it about my posts in this conversation that you felt you needed to delete them. Do you have some kind of guidelines that I've breached or were you unhappy that I feel that this report was a low point in the life of your news service?Even my conversation with @pokrk was deleted.Can you answer my question or are you going to delete this post too?

An impressive spectacle: Last week, the 200 Dominican School-Sisters of Fanjeaux made a pilgrimage to Rome with 1,000 girls. The sisters and girls are close to the SSPX. That is why the Vatican banned the pilgrims to celebrate Mass in a church. … [More]

Pope Francis has asked the newly created Cardinals to reinstate the marginalized. According to rumours Francis will personally set a good example by transforming the hotel where he lives into a simple Convent for those homeless Franciscan Friars of … [More]

The substance is the same: Benedict XVI has never regretted his decision to resign, said Archbishop Georg Gänswein, prefect of the papal household and personal secretary to the retired pope in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.… [More]

German Cardinal Attacks Catholics: In a lecture at Stanford University the ultraliberal Munich Cardinal Reinhard Marx has called young Catholics who want to – quote – “be clear in their positions” the “beginning of terrorism”. Marx is very clear in … [More]

Yesterday, the Vatican has published new directives for the Church on the preaching of the homily in Mass. At the presentation archbishop Arthur Roche, the secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, said that the homily “is not an intermissio… [More]

Seminary Founded by a Saint Will Be Closed: The seminary in Caen, France, that was founded in the 17th century by saint John Eudes will closed. Currently 17 seminarians live in the huge building complex. As of September they will study in the … [More]

He Will Resist: Cardinal Raymond Burke would not accept the provision of Holy Communion for adulterers, he said to "FranceTV.info". Quote: “I will resist”. Burke identified homosexuality as a condition that has nothing to do with marriage. As to … [More]